Tech Football, looking to commemorate something, decide on a ring for winning one game

Georgia Tech Football has decided that they need to commemorate their first win against Georgia in six or seven years by handing out special rings to all of their players. Now, I can understand it for winning a bowl game or a conference championship…but for winning one game against a rival? I’m pretty sure UGA doesn’t do this when they beat Florida every ten years.

As part of its bowl bounty, Tech is giving each player a ring. Coach Paul Johnson left the design of ring to the team’s seniors. He said the seniors decided to include the score of the Georgia game, 45-42, in the ring’s design. The win snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Bulldogs.

“We could give them $180 or something like that and then they’d spend it,” Johnson said. “Or you could give them that ring and they’ll have it 10 years from now.”

Yes, they’ll have it 10 years from now and will be impressing the ladies, right?

And there’s the difference between the Georgia Tech Football program and the University of Georgia Football program. For Georgia, a 9-3 season is seen as something shameful, a complete failure. For Tech, 9-3 is a cause for celebration.

I’m saying I wasn’t around in the 40’s, so I don’t remember them. Or don’t they teach English at Tech? Or maybe they offered it, but you decided not to take it, since you never planned to visit England anyway?

As for the history part, the 40’s was when Tech decided to cheat and use non-student Navy recruits for a few games. We don’t count those at UGA.

Bama fans almost learned some humility during their years wandering the probation desert.

Whereas the very word “humility” has been stricken from every dictionary, thesaurus, and website connected to UGA.

By the way, Icarus, the root word of “humility” is from the Latin word “humil” meaning “low.” Another word derived from humil is the word humiliation, as in “UGA football fanatics were subjected to years of humiliation after suffering defeat in 2008 from their arch-rival, Georgia Tech, with the humiliating final score of 45-42.”

Bama fans did learn humility. We gloat for a few hours after a victory, (Rammer Jammer cheer) but we also know it could all come tumbling down any time. You don’t see arrogance from our players as you do with other teams. I do have pride in what Alabama has accomplished this year. They were not even in the top 25 in pre-season polls but they believed in themselves and worked very hard to turn things around.

I do know that Paul Johnson was one of the coaches Alabama looked very hard at during the coaching search before Saban agreed to come to Tuscaloosa. Tech made a VERY wise decision in offering the HC job to Johnson…